Maahri hatheliya re bichh chhala padga maahra maaru ji...

It's a beautiful sunday morningat 1 PM and you are trying to come out of bed (still not willing to)...all of a sudden you realize that there is not even a single cloth washed and ironed except your towel. This is when you realize that it is not so beautiful sunday, as you have to wash your clothes now. With every shirt I washed, I remembered my mom, "hey mom, its not so easy as you told me". After 2 hours of continuous fight against my own clothes, finally I won by a little margin, as most of them were looking still the same even after i showed my talent of cloth wash. So, I compromised and let them dry. But to my surprise, the bucket was having something more for me, a whole new stock of unwashed clothes waiting...and that was the time, I surrendered and accepted defeated. "I can't !!!". So let them survive as dirty clothes for 6 more days. But the cloth wash was not that easy, as the battle demands blood, my palms were paying the price of cloth wash, as skin of my soft palms were off their place and I felt heavily wounded in war.
Still recovering from this huge wound in my hands and Getting ready for the next "War against Clothes : By wash" on next sunday. Padhna na bhuliyega, Tab tak ke liye aagiya dijiye, namaskar...

Not so Funny Observational Quotes

• When we are judging somebody, we are not defining him/her, actually we are defining ourselves...
• Two things people can't change about themselves, thinking and fooling around ...
• People spend most of their life thinking about their future life which they can only plan and can't execute...
• Be aware of Dogs, Salesmen and Advisors, they are here to stay but are not required...
• Games were supposed to be played for unity among groups but is doing the opposite...
• Getting married is one of the most important part of life, which brings happiness for a while and frustration for the rest of your life...
• When mirror breaks, it causes sound, when belief breaks, it falls as droplets from eyes.
• The funny part of any Group Discussion is that you pick one side first and then try to convince people that you are right. While it should be like, discuss first and then come to a conclusion that a particular point of view is better.
• Blogging is a new buzzword among professionals, but nobody knows why blogging. They do it  because others are doing it.
• Trees don't cry when we cut them, they smile and say, "Get well soon".

Observational Quotes

1. Enjoyment is subjected to market risk. Read the Offer Documents carefully before enjoying.
2. Balance in the Balance Sheet of Life is never Balanced at a given point in time but gets balanced at the end of particular period in years.
3. A licence agreement is a contract between the driver and the traffic policemen who grants driver the previlege for rash driving.
4. Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a negotiated agreement between two parties where one is the customer and the other is the blood sucker.
5. Sales Order is the Order generated for the employee to increase the sale of company product by 150%.
6. Defect Tracker tracks the defects created by the developer while being in holiday mood and these defects are fixed by the same developer in frustrated mood.
7. Smoking is injurious to health till a limit; after that health dies and smoking prevails.
8. Friendship is directly proportional to the number of years together, months together, days together, hours together, minutes together, seconds together. And indirectly proportional to the same too.
9. These enjoyments are performed by professionals. Do not attempt to re-create or duplicate these enjoyments. This may result in injuries in your simple life.
10. Being in an IT industry is like being in nowhere but a wild animal in cage where food and water is no problem but life is still not the same.

Bangalore : A City of Professionals

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

-Eric Hoffer

It is almost a week in Bangalore, and I am still adjusting in the city of gardens. Reason is not that I am completely unknown to city or it is drastically different from other cities but the reason is quite odd, the professional working here react unexpectedly on common situations. The essence of relationship is still well maintained but it is also having a potion of self oriented attitude and PR management attributes. And when asked about this unexpected and and unusual change, the response points toward "So-Called-Maturity".

I had been having rounds of drinks with different categories of friends; from childhood friends to ex-company colleagues, old friends with whom I shared almost 14 hours of my each day in school/college days to old flatmates. And one common thing which I found as a conclusion is that, in all the cases when I had drunk during the last few days, the reason for drinking is not at all the old one "Old friends get together" but more of a common reason for professionals; TGIF, weekend enjoyment. Because they usually kill their frustations of the whole working week with this stuff. I feel like anyone can just bumped into their usual routine and became the part of routine, nothing much effected them.

To get into the core of this more common still much unexpected attitude change, I tried to dig most of my friends' hearts about their current life (both personal and professional). And got much expected answer "Nothing much yaar, nothing interesting, same routine life". But change was visible and was written all over the wall.

Now just generalize the situation, people are getting so professional in their approach to everything including relations and life that they don't even realize, where they are using this logic, even if it doesn't fit in, they try to squeeze it in. I am not saying being professional is bad or not a good idea, it's just that professionalism should be in approach towards work and life but not in relations.

Sometimes, I find people getting frustrated from the situation they have created or they are in, and the only way out which they find is being changed to so-called-professional. I have no idea if it solves their problem or not, NO IDEA BOSS.

You want to think and say that you have everytning you need, but then you realize that something is missing, someone is missing... and once you think you've found it, it goes and disappears on you and you don't understand what to do or even where to start looking for that missing piece of the puzzle. You sit at home in lonely frustration and you just wait...wait...and wait. No where to look, no one to look for...

Situations make them believe that they cannot change anything, not even themselves, forget about changes others or bringing the change in society.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Update : It's been a long time in Bangalore now, this city has changed me a lot, I have seen a lot, learnt a lot, forgot a lot, lost a lot, been a lot now ...

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. -Leo Trotsky

I just forgot why I started this post and how the title is related to the content of the post, but this is what it is ...

No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible -George Grace

Transition through 2 cities or 2 different lifes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust

Traveling is one of the hobbies which I acquired after my college days. Not intentionally but job add a lot to it, because to find something interesting to spend time during weekend was the motive which helped me search new creative time spending ways.

I enjoyed a lot during most of my visits to different places in southern India. Reason why I enjoy such unplanned visits is well explained by this quote : "The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart".

Being in a city where people from northern India don't want to come (Chennai) for almost 2 years has being a great stay. Now with new year, I am in new city (Bangalore) where every north indian want to stay, but since 2 days I am not enjoying the place (don't know why). May be because I went into a comfort zone in chennai, each and every part of chennai was explored by me and Chennai was almost a second home to me. "Namma Chennai" was on our tongue every time. A bunch of friends who enjoyed each moment of chennai stay. Now new city-new aspirations, new flat-new flatmate, new job-new colleagues, new roads-new buses, new traffic- new traffic rules, new food-new restuarants.

I have entered this new city which absorb each and everyone who arrives here with open arms. But I am having an unwanted desire of going back home may be because of the swadesh song "Yeh jo desh hai tera, tujhko pukare".

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore

But I know, even if I want to go back, it is not in my hand. Let the journey continue and the voyage of vasco de gama to explore the world too continue. As I am learning a lot about cultures and different cities.

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
-Euripides

Re-Defining New Life with New Year

When time is going against you; there is always a new track to follow, rise on the surf board against the flow or swim along the flow. A new year, a new city, a new job, a new work schedule, new colleague, a new world altogether: lets see how good I will perform in 'new' life. I was traveling on 30th Dec from chennai to bangalore. New year celebrations on the 31st night with old n new friends. Now with day one of new year, I have to redefine my life...

Mani's Daal House (MDH)

I am "kind of" better these days, not because everything is going well and good; or I have everything I thought I should have; or I am happy; but because I am facing a lot many problem and I hope these will end soon. I say that because the hope against hope always make situation look better even if it is getting worse. Other than that there is absolutely no changes to tell about, but I will surely keep you all posted! I was thinking about a different topic to write about in blogs but was not getting the idea. All of a sudden I got it because the Chhora {kid} was standing in my bagal {side} and I was searching him in the gaanv {village}.
Coming to the main content of the post, I would like to inform you that I just got promoted!!!. {Thanks a lot but you are mistaken; I am not promoted in my job}. I got promoted as head chef in my flat’s kitchen!!!, where earlier I was just a helper. And as it always happens, I am promoted not because I am STAR performer at my flat’s kitchen but just because our head chef friend {was our flat mate} has quit his job by marrying a girl and taking another accommodation {Getting married is sometimes a boon, at least for him} and I was next in line because of my past experience as Asst. Chef and Senior Helper {Nice titles; Pursuing those roles, I used to cut vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, chili, etc.} and I am a quick learner {because I can say this with confidence}.
So from last one week we at our flat are preparing food to eat {not to throw it away, even if it is not suggested to eat by our doctor}. Our team of enthusiastic Foodmaker’s is increasing day by day. {not because of the quality of food we make but because of the quality of food being served by the tiffin wala} Our Co-Chef friend used to make chapattis and sometimes Aloo-ki…..-sabji yaar but now as Head Chef this responsibility has been transferred to me, by the unwritten notices and laws. I have improved a lot on preparing different variety of dishes. {because each time I make daal or sabji, the taste is different, sometimes the salt is more, sometimes the red chili powder is more, sometime the daal is invisible as it gets fully messed, sometimes it becomes difficult to eat it as they seems to be tiny granules of rock}. But I am still getting appreciation from my fellow team mates {foodmakers} because atleast they are able to eat cheap and hot food.
To my surprise, {you can count your surprise too} no one ended up in the hospital after eating my cooking {or atleast they didn't tell me if they did!} I've decided that “Daal-roti and Aloo ki sabji with rice” is one of my new favorite foods! {yes, you heard it right, I have decided because these are the only things which I can cook easily}. Still thinking, who came up with such recipes or what?! Who in their right mind would have combined vegetables with oil and powders And then mix it up in sometimes water or without it?! But how great is it!?
So today we are going to prepare Daal.
Ingredients for 2 people:
Urad daal, without skin 1 cup {cup can be of variable size, you can take CCD cup}chana daal 1/4 cuponions 2 nos.tomatoes 1 nos.garlic 4 cloves {but we usually don't put it as we always forget to buy them}green chilies 2 nos.
red chili powder 1 tbsp.butter 2 tbsp.oil 3 tbspsalt to taste
Method
Step 1. :Clean, wash and soak urad daal, chana daal in sufficient water {sufficient means 3-4 cups of water, don't ask me in litres} for at least 4 hours.{if you have free time or not so hungry, otherwise soak it for 2 minutes only}
Step 2. :Peel and finely chop onion and garlic. Wash, remove stem and finely chop green chillies. {you can chop them in any shape because either way you will not be able to chop them in proper shapes}
Step 3. :Wash and finely chop tomatoes.
Step 4. :Drain soaked dals, add 3-4 cups water and put the pressure-cook on fire for half an hour or until the dals are completely cooked.{how can you find it is cooked or not, when the pressure cooker is closed!!! Wait for 5-6 whistles boss, simple}
Step 6. :Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan, add chopped garlic, stir-fry briefly till golden brown. Add chopped onion, put green chillies for four to five minutes or until the onion is golden brown in colour.
Step 7. :Add red chilli powder and salt and stir-fry briefly. Add chopped tomatoes and cook on high heat for three to four minutes, stirring continuously.
Step 8.:Pour the cooked daal in the masala prepared. Stir in the cooked dals and butter and mix well. Cook dal for ten minutes on low heat, stirring occasionally. {can't I pour the masala in the cooked daal rather than pouring cooked daal in masala!!! Can't you eat chapati without daal!!!}
Our daaaaal {stretched it a lot because of mouth watering experience} is ready to serve. So hope you might have enjoyed learning at the Mani's Cooking Classes {Mani's Daal House (MDH) suits better}. When I prepared the daal for the first time, I put chat masala and dhaniya powder too in it. Still I called it daal and not some new recipe name. {I have given this million $ recipe to you, and it is not a joke; use it to prepare your own daal; and I can challenge it will taste just like hot and sour soup and not daal}
I think I now can prepare atleast 10 dishes total! People love recipes prepared by me and they eat so much {including me} that Finally either half of the food prepared get thrown in bin; or I do this mostly, I'm still eating left-overs {My favorite part of cooking}
And the reason for this post on my blog . . . . It is because I am searching a new job as chef or may start my new business by hiring a trolley or tricycle which I will place near the gate of some of the buildings of the IT companies; on which I will prepare food and sell to big foodies in IT industry and I hope my business will prosper.
You think, I can’t? Come on - What is it with "YOU" people - Don't be rude!!! I can do this.